Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

G. J. CAPEWELL.

CLOTHES DRIER.

Patented Mar. 29, 1887.

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NrrEn STATES ATENT FFICE..

GEORGE J. CAPEVELL, OF CIIESI-IIRE, CONNECTICUT.

CLOTHES-DRIER. i

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,275, dated March 29, 1887.

Application tiled May 1-1, i885. ScrialNo.165,519. (No model.)

` in horizontal section of the device on plane denoted by line x x of Fig. 1, showing the radial arms in plan view.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved device for supporting clothes while drying, which device is adapted to be secured to the ceiling of a room, and has means for closing or folding it up out of the way when not in use and for readily extending it so as to be accessible when wanted.

It consists in the combination of bracket,

support, and arms for holding the clothes with means for operating the device, as more particuiarly hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes a bracket, preferably of cast metal, with a screw, b, projecting from the upper side of the bracket, which also supports the pulley c, and projecting downward from the bracket an extensible standard, d. In the form shown this standard is made up of a stem, d', 0n which slides a tube, d2, which is prevented from sliding ed the bottom of the stem by means of a pin, collar, or like stop device, e. On the outside of this tube d2 is arranged a hub, f, bearing in sockets in a. disk-like extension of the hub a plural number of radiallyextending arms, g. The hub is preferably of metal cast to shape with thesockets formed in the casting, andthe arms, which are readily inserted in such sockets, are preferably of wood.

As a means for raising and lowering the hub and connected arms, I use in this form of my device a cord, It, which is fast to the hub on one side, and, after passing through the pulley c, islet down through a hole in the hub and between thejaws of a clamp device, that is preferably fast to the lower end ofthe tube d2. rThis clamp device consists of a cam-lever, fi, so pivoted in its support as to be adapted to clamp the cord between the roughened grasping-'lace of the cam and the side of the tube. This or any other well-known form of clamp device may be used for this purpose.

This improved drier is secured to the ceiling of a room by means of the screw b, and the extensible support projects downward, not far enough, however, to be in the way ol' persons moving about in the room when the device is closed. When desired for use, the cord is released l'rom the clamp, thehub, with its clothessupporting arms, lowered far enough to be within easy reach, and when clothes have been hung upon the arms the whole may be lifted out of the way by means ot' the cord and the clothes left to dry.

The hub is capable of a rotary motion about the standard; or a swivel may be introduced within the bracket; but it is desirable that the standard should be rigid or fastened against side-play.

I claim as my invention- The herein described improved clothesdrier, consisting of the combination of the bracket bearing a pulley, means for securing said bracket to the ceiling, the extensible standard, comprising the rigid stem and the tube sliding thereon, a cord-securing device on said sliding tube, and a cord secured to the hub, passing over the pulley and extending to the before-mentioned cord-securing device, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE J. CAIEVELL.

Witnesses:

Guias. L. BUEDETT, GEORGE HAYs. 

